Category: plants
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Sunday Crossword
As an obsessive crossword addict that spends a portion of Sundays on the couch working on the NY Times puzzle of the week, (and time-permitting some of the weeks puzzles as well) I couldn’t resist this interesting installation that arcady over at gardenhistorygirl dropped on her site last week. Call it at-grade green roofing meets…
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Veg.itecture #48
With the first Veg.itecture post of 2009, we start to integrate some of the ideas that budded in late 2008. These included more technical interpretation of projects, more discussion of plants, and potential maintenance concerns related to these projects – to add a level of rigor to the visuals. Obviously, as mentioned, this comes with…
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To Infinity and Beyond
A concept of landscape architecture and site design involves the acknowledgement of desire paths, those etched remnants of the accumulation of thousands of footsteps over a particular planted area. While often this idea is used to determine the future location of pathways – there are millions of urban ‘desire paths’ that are created by the…
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Again, Time to Get High
I’ll try to keep my fawning at bay as I post some new info from the High Line (although my obsession is well known)… but sometimes I just can’t resist. I recently plugged through some of the recent High Line Blog posts, and particularly appreciate the short lived ‘What will grow here?’ – which aimed…
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Food for Thought
It’s been ages since I’ve posted anything on urban agriculture, and it’s long-overdue… I realize my neglect after spending a bit of time sifting through some research in finishing up the SDAT report text, as well as in preparation for a submittal for the first issue of [bracket] journal with the theme ‘On Farming’… which…
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Got Maintenance?
As regular visitors know, L+U comprehensively covers the broad range of vegetated architecture. While there are many technical issues at play, often the coverage skims the surface with some choice excerpts and some snappy graphics. This is not to imply that there is not a critical eye towards the functional side, and as a designer…
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Veg.itecture #46
A double-dose this week, as there are a number of recent impressive projects, and the preponderance of press picking up the terminology on the sub-genre of Veg.itecture. Also, recently, Landscape, The First Specialised Landscape Magazine in the Middle East was kind enough to publish my article, The “Veg.itecture of Ken Yeang”. Check out the online…
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Green Plot Ratio
A recent link from World Landscape Architect uncovered a short but interesting post from The Daily Star by Faysal Kabir Shuvo on a concept called the Green Plot Ratio (GPR). It is interesting in reinforcing the idea of vegetated architecture and the need for greenery in cities and buildings in combating the effects of urban…
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Veg.itecture #45
It is time again. While these may be just pretty pictures, I feel strongly that these projects represent a new awakening of the potential meshing (not the disconnect) between the professions of architecture and landscape architecture. The project of the moment is actually one I feel a bit sheepish in saying I actually like –…
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Agro-Urban Resources
A recurring theme for sure… both on the web and media at large and within the confines of Landscape+Urbanism, urban agriculture has received short shrift lately (here) due to other ideas and concepts on the front burner. I have recently been delving through my new copy of CPULs (Continuous Productive Urban Landscapes) and will be…